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TIL Peruvians consume an estimated 65 million guinea pigs each year

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8epDZ TIL that the widely accepted "Learning Styles" theory "everyone has a different learning style (visual, auditory, reading/writing, kinesthetic)" has almost no experimental data behind it. The few researches done on the subject proved the opposite.
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